Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has clarified comments he made about the so-called “death of encryption.”
Huang has been criticized in the past for saying on several occasions that since AI platforms would soon do much of the heavy lifting in coding, young people today shouldn’t necessarily view learning it as an essential skill. consider.
Speaking at the company’s Nvidia GTC 2024 event in San Jose, Huang was asked during a press Q&A whether he still believed this was the case – and it appears not much has changed.
Death of coding?
“I think people need to learn all kinds of skills,” Huang said, likening learning to code to skills like juggling, playing the piano or math.
However, he did add that “programming will not be essential to be a successful person… but if anyone wants to learn that (programming), please do so – because we are hiring programmers.”
In the past, Huang has said that time that would otherwise be spent learning to code should instead be invested in expertise in sectors such as agriculture, biology, manufacturing and education, and that upskilling is an important path forward could be, which could contribute to the knowledge of how and when to use AI programming.
Huang also added that generative AI would require some new skills to bridge the technology gap.
“You don’t have to be a C++ programmer to be successful,” he said. “You just have to be a fast engineer. And who can’t be a fast engineer? When my wife talks to me, she immediately starts designing me.”
“We all need to learn how to turn on AIs, but that’s no different than learning how to turn on teammates.”
These skills could be critical for younger people entering the workforce at a promising time, Huang continues.
“It (AI) is a new industry – that is why we say there is a new industrial revolution,” he stated. In the future, almost all of our computing power will be generated.”